iamshadow21
Amateur Forensics Geek
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I know one of the teachers in the Covenant School definitely had her phone, because she was on the phone to emergency when the police were knocking on the classroom door, and she was calmly saying that she wasn't going to open the door unless the folks on the phone verified it really was LE and not the shooter at the door.Teachers use their phone in class for many things- attendance, showing media, keeping time and we also have the right to have our phone in the classroom for emergencies - like any other professional. It doesn't mean she is misusing it. Students give the same question, why can teachers have their phone and not students snd the short answer is because they are TEACHERS and adult professionals, it seems strange, to me, that a teacher having a phone in class is the issue in all of this.imo
In addition it was said she was reading a book go the class and they were a seated- he was, iirc, seated in front of her, took out the gun and *advertiser censored* her as she was reaching to take the gun from him.
In the age of school shootings in America, or anywhere, really, it makes sense for teachers to have their phone on them.
I live with two teachers. One, my mother, puts her phone in the safe every day and never uses it in school time and just today, had to be reminded where to find texts she's received on it. (She's great on other tech devices, she's ridiculously good at family history since it all went digital, she's just got no interest in using her phone as something to do anything but make phone calls.)
The other is almost twenty years younger, and always has her phone on her, both for food, water, and medication alarms to keep her healthy, and to access media for her classroom, such as stories read aloud on sites like YouTube and ABCKids (Australia). It's not something that she's fiddling with when she should be teaching, it's integrated into her teaching as a device that's a resource, just as much as her school laptop or her whiteboard.
Both of these people are old enough to be Ms Zwerner's mother. Grandmother, in my mum's case. It makes complete sense to me that she'd have her phone with her while teaching.
MOO